The Bus! The Links!

The prompts are down there in the post below, but it's getting unwieldy so we're up here for the links!

Doing a test-run mock-up of the book as the poems arrive and are released for use. Photo above is the panther page, photo below a test cover. Not sure about the multi-coloured title...



And here are the riders:

Pure song from Karen, at Keeping Secrets: http://keepingsecrets-karen.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-is-beauty-more.html

Kingfisher and legend from The Bug, at Bug's Eye View: http://danabugseyeview.blogspot.com/2011/03/poetry-bus-boundless-sea.html

I done her wrong! She's really written a poem, and that doesn't happen very often. Welcome to the Bus, hope of The Road Less Traveled: http://hope-theroadlesstraveled.blogspot.com/2011/04/bus-ride.html

What this? A voice from across the water? Yes, Rachel is back at her original rambling place for one nite only with this: http://crowd-pleasers.blogspot.com/2011/04/titus-bus.html

And here's Dave, from Pics and Poems, with a voice from beneath the water. Here: http://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-delphinus.html

First in a flurry of arrivals, here's Dominic from ...made out of words, with a poignant memory: http://dominicrivron.blogspot.com/2011/04/thats-life.html

Next it's izzy, of conversing, who's first with the lemur. Mischief and more, here: http://izzy-conversing.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-bus-4411.html

And here's Argent! With a trifle! Delusions of Adequacy? I think not, here: http://argent-delusionsofadequacy.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-bus-animal-magic-special.html

Yay! It's the middle of Mothering Sunday here, I've had the flowers, the chocolates, the fancy-dancy Baylis and Harding toiletries and the handmade cards, and now I've got poems!

From parsnip, at angryparsnip, we have javelinas. If you don't know, you better go: http://twosquaredogs.blogspot.com/2011/04/for-titus-and-poetry-bus.html

And a hoot from Doctor FTSE, here: http://thedocspoems.blogspot.com/2011/04/animal-magic-for-poetry-bus-april-4th.html

And finally, Lord be praised, we have a fabled hunter from Chris at Enchanted Oak, here: http://chrisalba-enchantedoak.blogspot.com/

Now I'm being taken out for lunch...

...and now I can hardly move. Opting for both puddings possibly not my best idea.

But to cheer, here's Jinksy from Alias Jinksy, who went for the bushbaby. And the zebra, and the penguin and the camel... oh, go and see yourself! Limerick heaven, here: http://pens-poems.blogspot.com/2011/04/bushbaby-or-baby-bush.html

Now, who would have written about cats? She's a scientist, she's read the list of options, and she's gone for... cats. She really tried not to. It has to be the one and only NanU, here: http://sciencegirltraveler.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-ark.html

Beware: the stuff of nightmares, and something deeper, at Emerging Writer's, here: http://emergingwriter.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-managerie-bus.html

And here's Helen, from Poetry Matters, with the first gecko! It might be one you know... Here: http://woonietest.blogspot.com/2011/04/gordy-gecko-on-bus.html

And Niamh hasn't told me, but I've found her anyway. Might be a secret. See Various Cushions, here: http://variouscushions.blogspot.com/2011/04/tituss-animal-bus.html

Hooray! Peter Goulding's here, from The Stammering Poet. Shortlisted for Strokestown. I needed a hawk. He gave me a dog. And yet, and yet... Here: http://stammeringpoet.blogspot.com/2011/04/titus-animal-magic-poetry-bus.html

And where would we be without 120 Socks! A silent shadow, here: http://120socks.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-bus-poem-black-panther.html

Move up at the back there! Here's Lucy, from Lucy by Lucy, with a gecko. Who's called... Here: http://luciewestenra.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-bus-4th-april.html

DRUM ROLL PLEASE! HERE'S D'OUB, from her Domestic Oubliette: http://domesticoubliette.blogspot.com/2011/04/beastly-bus.html

Room on top! Watch out Wizards! Here's new move Kat, of Poetikat's Invisible Keepsakes. Go find her at the new place, here: http://poetikat-km.blogspot.com/2011/04/animal-busand-were-late-again.html

And a new kid! On this block, at least. Welcome Bubba, who appears to have been born to be wild, here: http://thisisbubbasplace.blogspot.com/2010/08/mechanimal.html

All Rise! Here comes the King! Our esteemed leader, and ruler of the unknown universe, is here. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you... TFE: http://totalfeckineejit.blogspot.com/2011/04/its-wrong-trousers.html

And now, with a Carmen Miranda feel, we have rallentanda. Welcome to the Bus! Here: http://rallentanda.blogspot.com/2011/04/mad-dog.html

Look! Here's Lolamouse. A lemur, but possibly not the one you were expecting... Here: http://lolamousedroppings.blogspot.com/2011/04/ring-tailed-lemur-speaks.html#comment-form

Is this the last? The fabulous Muse Swings! I used to think these were baby eagles. Here: http://muse-swings.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-bus-has-egret-perched-on-seat.html

And here's me: http://titusthedog.blogspot.com/2011/04/poetry-bus-geckos-of-aleppo.html